[Spliff]

For those interested, JMS, the creator of Babylon 5, is going to auction off a bunch of memorabilia on eBay, starting next week, under the eBay ID "babylon5auctions."

http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17317

It's going to be kind of a JMS retrospective in some ways, because as I
said, this stuff covers decades...from memorabilia and storyboards for
the Ghostbusters, He-Man and Captain Power series, original scripts
from Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote...but the bulk of it is B5
stuff.

There are the actual script books I used during production, into which
I shoved the script I was working on, the breakdowns, shooting
schedules, any storyboards that were needed...the whole thing, in one
book per episode, some of which still have my original notations.

There are episodic dailies tapes, with takes and bits not previously
seen anywhere, posters, publicity material, a ton of stuff.

Props from the show, from my personal collection, where I have doubles
or just no place for them anymore.

(One of the things I'm letting go traces back to the pilot. Not sure
if the show would ever actually go, I paid the wardrobe department to
make me a B5 captain's uniform. I know, I know, I'm the ultimate geek,
but there you are. Suffice to say given the passage of time and
calories, there's no way on god's green earth that that uniform is ever
going to fit. Not that I ever wore it past the initial fitting, but
for sure it ain't gonna happen now. So that's on its way out.)

Another prime item is going to be one of two huge original art pieces
that the late Peter Ledger did for me to help sell B5 itself, big,
elaborate paintings, signed by Peter. The one I won't sell is the
first painting of the B5 station itself from the outside; the one I
just don't have room for is the very first visualization/painting of
the Garden area, with the core shuttle, folks floating around, and in
the bar, a fight breaking out between humans and aliens, with an early
version of Garibaldi in the thick of it.

There's caps, and a disco-style prototype of a B5 crew jacket, a few of
the original blue key B5 symbol t-shirts made up before we did the
pilot and given out at a couple of conventions, an assortment of
souvenirs and some truly, truly weird ****, some of which nobody's ever
heard of before, let alone seen.

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The first items are up.

http://search.ebay.ca/_W0QQsassZbabylon5auctions

[starman]

I never even bother looking at auctions like these. Everything goes for insane amounts of money.

Mike

[Spliff]

Originally Posted by starman

I never even bother looking at auctions like these. Everything goes for insane amounts of money.

Mike

Geez, you're not kidding. I didn't think the bids would go so high. Nearly $400 for a jacket and over $1700 for a couple of action figures (albeit the only ones of their kind). Some people got a lot of spare cash to burn.